byron pitts cbs news, milwaukee. >> schieffer: all right. that's the news for scott pelley, i'm bob schieffer, cbs news in new york. we'll see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> now, we are just a few minutes away from robert griffin iii taking the field in the first pre-season game against the bills. >> we finally get our first hook at robert griffin iii, taking on number one. it will be a short debut. the first team expect bed to take just 12 to 20 snaps. a good thing though for rg3 considered that three starters are t

byron pitts cbs news new orleans >>> of all eyes and has but a setback on the republican convention the show goes on. the convention scaled-back to three days and begins tomorrow political analyst grace lee >>> the organizers reshuffle the schedule the official vote is tomorrow and as politicians flocking together no surprise the flock the sparks are flying already new jersey gov. chris christie calls out jerry brown >>> california made a bad choice by going with an old retread let me tell you this i cannot believe you people elected jerry brown over meg whitman may >>> that was just the beginning of chris christie is rant against jerry brown in front of the california delegation >>> i have to sit at the delegation with this guy and i have to say he says stuck telling people want to raise taxes and i said yes you are jerry, he said no, not on one put it on the ballot and let the people decide. man that's leadership isn't it? >>> but did christie go too far by calling the gov retread analyst joe touman believes he did >>> it demonstrates naivete on his part it's going to elevate yourself

byron pitts is there. byron. >> reporter: well, scott, firefighters and deputies drove through neighborhoods here. they spoke on loud speakers. they gave clear and simple directions-- "you have 90 minutes. pack what you can and go." kim garmillion and her husband thought they were done running when they moved here from new orleans. they were wrong. >> i think it's crazy. we move here after katrina, and we're just praying that everything will be fine. >> reporter: isaac has already dumped more than 20 inches of rain along the gulf coast in three days, and it's still raining. today, mississippi's lake tangipahoa swelled beyond its banks. this lake is a 700-acre pool that feeds into rivers stretching more than 60 miles. authorities say they'll have to release some of its waters. it's the only way to save some 60,000 people from having their homes overtaken by floodwaters 17 feet deep. >> so if you have registered, please come inside. >> reporter: local shelters like this one in kentwood, louisiana, filled up

reports from byron pitts, david bernard and mark strassman. the republicans nominate mitt romney for president. bob scheiffer and norah o'donnell will cover it. bill whitaker on homeowners underwater and looking to the candidates for a life line. >> here we are five years later. the end is not in sight. >> pelley: and we'll talk to ann romney about the personal challenges the romney family has faced. >> what do you mean dark times? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from the republican national convention. >> pelley: good evening. it is a night of two big stories. moments ago, republicans nominated mitt romney as their candidate for president. but while delegates were counting the votes, six million people on the gulf coast were counting the hours before hurricane isaac makes land fall. romney's six-year quest for the nomination came to a successful end with the votes cast by the delegation from new jersey. >> the garden state, the proud home of tonight's keynote address given by gove

we want to go to byron pitts in new orleans first. good morning, byron. >> good morning. here in new orleans we've seen wind gusts north of 80 miles per hour. trees are down, streets are flooded, power outages widespread. all to be expected. as bad as it is here, it's worse further south. police officers are out in these weather conditions going door to door looking for people who declined their order to evacuate. overnight as hurricane isaac dumped more than an inch of year every hour, most people in new orleans heeded mayor mitch landrieu's caution. >> we're in the heart of this fight. we're in the hunker down phase. >> we rode with national guard troops who along with new orleans police patrolled the mostly empty streets. a major problem? more than 350,000 without power across louisiana. >> see that. >> home video captured power lines popping in the storm. low-lying communities south of new orleans like plaquemine's pearish got the worse of it. >> when this is over, we need to check the wind speeds because i lost a good portion of my roof, my fence is down and water is

reports from byron pitts, mark strassmann, and bill whitaker. will the republicans unite behind their nominee? a frank conversation with mitt romney. some people in your party don't like you. dr. jon lapook on a link between a woman's weight and the risk that breast cancer will return. and as the world remembers the life of neil armstrong, john blackstone will focus on two harrowing minutes when his cool hand made the moon walk possible. >> we knew we were in for a fight. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from tampa. >> pelley: good evening, isaac is not a hurricane yet but soon will be. the tropical storm is slowing down, gaining strength, and seems headed for the moment toward new orleans. the center of isaac is over the gulf of mexico, about 300 miles southeast of the mouth of the mississippi river. it's expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow. watches and warnings affecting five million people are up all along the northern gulf coast from florida to louisiana. from space, isaac

reports from byron pitts and mark strassmann in the hurricane zone. bob schieffer and norah o'donnell on paul ryan's night at the republican convention. and we'll talk to mitt romney about connecting with the voters. you're worth something north of $200 million. what do you say to a single mother who thinks "he doesn't know me." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, tonight you are going to hear from one of the navy seals who killed osama bin laden. in may of last year, 24 men from seal team 6 raided bin laden's home in abbottabad, pakistan. none of those men has publicly spoken about the mission until now. the seal you're about to meet has written a book and he has done his only interview for "60 minutes." then you walk into a secure room... he calls himself mark owen, that's not his real name. we've disguised him and will keep his name confidential for his own safety. owen was on the helicopter that crashed in bin laden's compound. he was the second man in the room when bin laden was s

byron pitts is in new orleans. byron, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, norah. the big push here today, restoring electricity along the southern coast of louisiana. theirities believe they wrapped up their rescue efforts overnight. overni when national guard troops arrived in laplace, many of them were surprised by what they saw. ildren, sn, and children, some thebling in the early evening was l, all of them homeless. >> woke up, it was fine. next minute, it was just like all over the place. everything underwater. everything. ything.rter: close to 100 people forced to evacuate when isaac's floodwaters overwhelmed their subdivision. >> it's a nightmare. >> i veriteral nightmare. south,s pouring over now. eminesorter: 50 miles to the south, residents in plaquemines parish had a similar story to afll after water overtopped a smaller municipal levee. picked off rooftops by rescue thes in boats, 70-year-old fred leslie says he ignored the on. atory evacuation order toause he had no other option. withere are you going to go? you know, this is home. e considter: with w

byron pitts has been water logged for the past several days in new orleans and doing great reporting least the rain has stopped. >> reporter: that's right. good morning, norah, good morning guys. the mississippi river is calmer this morning than it was this time yesterday. the big push today, restoring electricity. there were a number of rescue efforts yesterday. in the small town of la place, west of new orleans, 300 people were evacuated. their homes flooded. many of them spent the night in a local church. it was a far more dramatic scene south of new orleans in plaquemines parish. there, rescue teams and boats plucked people off of rooftops. the floodwaters were 10 to 14-feet deep after a municipal levee was breached. in new orleans, the city's upgraded $14.6 billion levee system appeared to work. flooding was minimum. the bigger issue, the loss of electricity. according to the city's mayor, 65% of new orleans lost electricity. now that the worst ofke i -- what's left of isaac, excuse me, has moved further north, the push today will be removing debris and restoring electricity. guy

and byron pitts is on a farm that's cropped up where you'd least expect it. >> i had such a burning desire to grow food. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: and good evening. scott's off tonight. i'm bob schieffer. lawyers for james holmes, the man charged in the "batman" movie massacre, said today holmes is mentally ill. the disclosure came when the lawyers appeared with holmes at a colorado court hearing in the attack that left 12 dead and 58 wounded, an attack that has left holmes facing multiple murder charges that carry the death penalty. john blackstone is at the courthouse in centennial, colorado. john. >> reporter: bob, it was a one- hour, 20-minute hearing in which james holmes did not seem to be engaged in any way. he sat with his hand shackled, folded in his lap, often just staring at the courthouse ceiling. when james holmes first appeared in court july 23, his demeanor and expression raised questions about his mental state. in court today, he seemed little changed. as holmes stared wide-eyed around the courtroom, defense

here is byron pitts with his story. >> it is all about the soil, >> his childhood revolved around they farmer to put in long hours and so vegetables door to door. when he grew to be 6 ft. 7 in. tall, new opportunities arose. >> when i was a high school all- american i had 100 scholarship offers and i said it would never go back to the form. >> followed by success as a corporate executive at procter and gamble, in 1993 at age 43, he was driving to milwaukee and saul a. for sale sign that changes like. >> i cashed in my retirement to purchase this place. it was a tremendous gamble. >> the last piece of farm land in milwaukee's around buy houses and faster restaurants. it gave allen a chance to achieve two goals. to bring healthy food to the intercity, and to create jobs in the community. he dubbed his new enterprise " growing power ". >> why is this important health and economics? >> i want to be sure that everyone has access to the same good food, culturally appropriate good food regardless of their economic status. >> it is now considered the prime model of urban farming. it employs m

byron pitts, thank you. and in spite of all that concern over new orleans, isaac could have its most damaging impact on the mississippi and alabama coast. let's go from new orleans up the coast 80 miles to biloxi, mississippi, where mark strassmann is watching storm preparations there. mark, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, nora. biloxi faces the northeast quadrant of isaac. that is the storm's most powerful and potentially punishing side. so, this tourist town is a ghost town. residents, beachgoers and gamblers have all fled inland. >> actually started a few days ago, started putting all this up. >> reporter: eric newton's a security director trying to protect this casino and resort from isaac's furry. >> all aluminum? >> all aluminum. >> reporter: flood walls at every entrance can stop up to ten feet of storm surge and protect the 28-story hotel, rebuilt after katrina. this 2005 surveillance video shows 24 feet of floodwater overwhelming the casino after a $550 million renovation, the beau r

byron pitts is there. byron. >> reporter: scott, there are already reports of more than 160,000 homes in new orleans without power tonight. the big concerns this evening-- power outages, flooding, and storm surge, especially in low-lying communities south of w orleans, like plaquemines parish. and for new orleans, the city is protected by a $14.6 billion levee system put into place evter hurricane katrina seven years ago. the expectations are new orleans should do okay. but, scott, that's the expectation. we should learn the truth when the sun comes up. >> pelley: isaac coming .shore. byron, thank you. coming up next, here in tampa, the person who knows mitt romney better than anyone, his wife of 43 years, anne romney. we'll be right back. he wings. one is for a clean, wedomestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with s

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byron pitts is in kentwood, louisiana, near the mississippi border. byron, good morning. >> good morning, norah. authorities in mississippi say that today they will slowly breach a dam that feared would burst sending floodwaters into louisiana. that is very good news for the people living downstream. crews scrambled to keep this mississippi dam from bursting thursday and save nearby towns from 17 feet of floodwaters. some 60,000 people, families like this, were told they had 90 minutes to pack what they could and go. >> i think it's crazy. we moved here after katrina and we're just praying that everything will be fine. >> late thursday the coast guard released this video of a couple and their cat being rescued. there are homes so many like in la place, louisiana and western new orleans was threat yented by floodwaters. in hard-hit plaquemines parish, officials confirm the death of two people. in other neighborhoods, some residents barely made it out alive. >> the water started coming in the trailer and we saw all our vehicl floating all over the place.

so we want to go first to byron pitts, who is in new orleans. byron, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. we are seeing wind gusts here up to 100 miles per hour as the rain continues to fall in sheets. a little while ago, i was on the phone with the mayor of new orleans who says that 65% of the city is out of electricity. as bad as it is here, it's far worse south in plaquemines parish. overnight, as hurricane isaac dumped more than an inch of rain every hour, most people in new orleans heeded mayor mitch landrieu's caution. >> we're in the heart of this fight. we're in the hunker down phase. >> reporter: we rode with national guard troops along with new orleans police patrolling the mostly empty streets. a major problem close to half a million people without power across louisiana. >> see that? >> home video captured power lines popping in the storm. low-lying communities south of new orleans like plaquemines parish got the worst of it. parish president billy nungesser called in to our affiliate. >> when is over, we need to check the

byron pitts is in new orleans. byron, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie, and to our viewers out west. the wind has picked up a bit here. we expect the rain in a few more hours. we are standing along the mississippi river in the lower ninth ward. this part of new orleans was devastated after hurricane katrina. so people here will rely heavily on the new levee system this time. so you were born and raised in the lower ninth ward. >> yes. >> reporter: 46-year-old darren mckinney was here seven years ago. katrina devastated the lower ninth ward. homes and friends lost. but isaac is no katrina, mckinney says, so he's staying. >> i ain't going to leave. if it would have got to a category 3 and up, yes, then i'm going to leave. >> reporter: you would have got out of town? >> i would have got out of town. >> reporter: some homes in the lower ninth still bear the marks of the recovery teams in 2005. there are scars here and signs of improvement, including the $14.6 billion upgrade to the city's levee system. t